Sicilian Papa wrote: “…I’m not saying I was desperate but if Vlad agreed to shave his back hair…we could talk.
Another woman said my picture made me look like a killer.
I don’t know about that…Vladimir thought I was kind a sexy.”

I can definitely conclude from the triangulation above, that Vladmir was the desperate one.

<<< I've given the mods all three names + one more. I'm putting money on Mark2. His doucheness comes out with yet another STUPID A*S statement about Rachel beating The Five in the demo! The Five is NOT aired in prime-time, when everyone is watching TV. Rachel airs at 9PM. Potential viewers for The Five are probably not home for work yet. THis ass-clown must had done a LOT of drugs at one time.

@Sicilian Papa: How is my friend? You had me in stitches before about the Russian lady. Just stay out of Brighton Beach if you are in the NYC area. LOL

Sicilian Papa

@

Apple

You are the King my friend!

Sicilian Papa

@

Ralph

The fake Ralph can’t hold a candle to you!

Bsotgnw

Mark2

Are you stupid or kidding compairing the 5 to mad cow

Ralph Hahn

@Papa: Thank you, my friend.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that AppleStinx IS The King here.

Mark2

@Ralphie Girl “I’ve given the mods all three names + one more. I’m putting money on Mark2.”

Well, I guess you’ll be losing some money. And I expect an apology once they find out who your sock puppet is.

http://tvbythenumbers.com Bill Gorman

@Ralph Hahn, I had blocked a “fake” Ralph Hahn before, but he has reappeared and we don’t have the time to continue blocking folks that are determined to evade it. I suggest you follow the instructions above the comment box and create a gravatar if you want to appear different from fakes.

As for the “who was it”? No obvious current commenter.

Bsotgnw

Bill

realy, I thought that was your purpose?

Mark2

@Bsotgnw “realy, I thought that was your purpose?”

Didn’t you read what he said you knucklehead?

–“As for the “who was it”? No obvious current commenter”

Jeff

OOOPS Ralph and Chriscee wrong again. Must be a rare brain disease…….can only explain such contempt and stupidity.

Some of the nation’s largest health insurance companies are warning investors that they’ll raise insurance premiums by as much as 116 percent next year, as the coverage expansion provisions in the Affordable Care Act go into effect and millions of uninsured Americans begin purchasing coverage.
The threats of premium increases come as the industry is experiencing record profits and are part of a well-coordinated publicity campaign to alarm Americans about the cost of coverage, while downplaying mechanisms in the law that will cushion them from rate shock. The effort comes as insurers seek more favorable regulatory changes that would, in part, allow companies to charge older people more for coverage.
United Health Group Inc., Aetna, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield are ringing the alarm, attributing the possible cost increases to general health care inflation as well as provisions in the health care law, which require insurers to offer more comprehensive coverage, particularly in the individual health care market, and limit the companies’ ability to set premiums based on beneficiaries’ health care histories, age, or sex.
As a result, “The insurance industry has also been talking publicly about big potential premium increases in lobbying for tweaks to the law,” the Wall Street Journal reports:
In a private presentation to brokers late last month, UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation’s largest carrier, said premiums for some consumers buying their own plans could go up as much as 116%, and small-business rates as much as 25% to 50%. The company said the estimates were driven in part by growing medical costs not directly tied to the law. It also cited the law’s requirements that health status not affect rates and that plans include certain minimum benefits and limits to out-of-pocket charges, among other things. […]
Aetna Inc. in a presentation last fall to its national broker advisory council, suggested rates on individual plans not being grandfathered under the law could go up 55%, on average, and gave a figure of 29% for small business rates. Both numbers included 10 percentage points tied to medical-cost inflation, not the law. An Aetna spokesman said the numbers are “still generally in line with what we’ve been estimating,” and represented the average impact in a typical state.
An official with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of North Carolina told a gathering of brokers last week that individual premiums could go up by as much as 40% to 50%, according to brokers who were present. A spokeswoman for the insurer said “we don’t have final numbers” yet on premiums.
Insurers have long complained that the law’s more rigorous standards would raise prices, although since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, national health expenditures have decreased and insurers in the individual market have followed the trend, posting fewer double digit increases. Sudden rate hikes were considered the norm before the law went into effect and applicants were regularly denied coverage or priced out of it altogether. Insurance commissioners have also begun reviewing rates more carefully and insurers have had to spend 80 cents out of every premium dollar on health benefits, rather than administrative overhead.
The ACA also includes mechanisms to help minimize initial sticker shock and independent analyses have found that many young adults can enroll in Medicaid, stay on their parents’ policies, or qualify for tax credits in the state-based health insurance exchanges. The CBO analysis of the law has also determined that average premiums for individuals would be 10 percent to 13 percent higher because of the law — an increase that’s far smaller than insurers are projecting.
Insurers, meanwhile, are already seeing impressive profits. UnitedHealth, for instance, “had a particularly strong past year, with net income of $5.1 billion, up by 11% from the previous year” and Aetna is similarly beating revenue expectations. A July 2010 report from PricewaterhouseCoopers concluded that the law’s state-based health care exchanges provide private insurers with a lucrative new market in which they stand to gain up to $200 billion in revenue by 2019.

Hillbilly

@Ratboy

I read your boys on Duck Dynasty are in a dispute over their pay for the next season of the show. I think they (3 of them) want $200,000 an episode. It’s the number 1 show on cable the night it airs & second over all on cable to The Walking Dead.

I don’t watch much of his show, but he must be doing something right. I did catch Charles Krauthammer talking about the banking deal in Cyprus. Bill O was kinda confused, but wouldn’t let Charles help him out.

Hillbilly

The Miami Heat finally lost. Now they can play the Spurs with less pressure on them. That should be a good game.

Hillbilly

Derek
Posted March 27, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Does anyone think that The Five would do even better in prime time? Say the post-O’Reilly slot? Or would it keep the same viewer/demo totals (or drop)?

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Good question. At 5pm lots of folks either at work or commuting home. My guess they would do better at 6 or 7pm, than at 9pm. They started running repeats on the weekends. That ain’t helping the weekend ratings.